BlackBerry OS 5.0 to have tabbed browsing

You know us; we have nothing for love for RIM but it seems that its case of ADD is a lot worse than previously thought. For the better part of a week we’ve been playing around with a new beta build of OS 5.0 and noticed that it has a new feature that has yet to be seen on any other OS 5.0 betas — tabbed browsing. Sound a bit familiar? Well it should, because RIM has been working on getting tabbed browsing right since at least June of 2007. As it stands, the process of opening a new tabs isn’t something we can complain about (all that you have to do is hit the Menu button, click Tabs and then New Tab), but switching between two or more tabs is, quite frankly, a huge pain in the ass as there is no keyboard shortcut. This strikes us as rather hilarious as BlackBerrys are legendary for the speed at users can fly around the devices. We’re praying that the clunkyness of tabbed browsing is just because it’s not ready for prime time and that some added functionality, including shortcuts, will hit before launch. Hit the jump to see tabbed browsing in action.

I think RIM should spend less time adding “new” features and focus more on OS development. This is a nod to BGR’s article/rant about the current state of the Blackberry OS.

morty

great !

now i can wait 2 minutes for 2 pages to load instead of 1 minute.

leave the tab browsing for later…how about a browser that’s fast and renders pages properly first!

“WALK THEN RUN!”

Beeve

iPhone tab browsing rules BB! Lol

http://www.hernandezlawAZ.com TechnoBeaver

Very psyched!! I will love tabbed browsing.

@ joetour

I bet someone above is stevenglansburg. There are a couple of BlackBerry haters up there that I never saw before. Glansburg got smart, and took the term “BlackBerry” out of his new alias. The message is the same.

Joe

@TechnoBeaver

I’m not a hater or anything. I’m far from it, I’ve had BB’s (8100, 8300, 8800, 8330, and 8900) and I loved them all for various reasons. I really loved the 8900, but the browser on all of them was subpar. Nothing against RIM, but a total overhaul of their browser wouldn’t hurt.

Apple’s browser is great, but more importantly, it fits the iPhone. They haven’t tried to reinvent the wheel with it. Not to say RIM is trying to do anything new or innovative either, I’m just saying perhaps they should rethink their whole concept of the browser on their devices.

Sometimes a cut requires more than a band-aid. It requires stitches.

http://www.hernandezlawAZ.com TechnoBeaver

@ Joe

Are you joetour? My comment was for him.

I agree with what you just @’ed to me I just don’t know why you especially addresses it to me, although I don’t mind. I agree, BlackBerry browser sucks. Really bad. Still, a sucky browser with tabs is better than not.

Joe

@TechnoBeaver

I must have read the name wrong in your post. My bad. I assumed since you called out the haters, you may have been referring to my previous post. Either way though, my opinion doesn’t change.

uhh

Cut and paste. Awesome.

Rick

As a Blackberry guy but not a serious tech-head like some of you, I’m kind of surprised no one has mentioned the Skyfire browser for BB yet. I agree that eye-candy and app-toys are a big part of the iPhone’s appeal and there are a bunch of problems with it that we don’t deal with as BB users. If there were a Blackberry with a browser that could compete with Safari, a ‘full screen’ and a physical keyboard, that would be it for me – I wouldn’t need anything else that the iPhone has to offer.

When do we see Skyfire for Blackberry? That’s my question.

http://Www.simplifiedgeek.com Stewart

I’m afraid your a little wrong RIM does play a part in what phones each carrier has. It took longer for verizon and sprint to get a pearl flip because they had not yet made a CDMA version. Plus they sign exclusive agreements (personaly I think there wrong) so a carrier can be the only to have it and RIM makes a few extra million. If they would work with the phone companies a littledifferent we could all enjoy what ever phone we want and not have to have carrier battles and name calling. The logistics of it are quite possible. I say own an iPhone and a blackberry, they both have there ups and downs and both are great for certain things just utilize the best of both worlds.

Joe

@ Stewart

Agreed on the carrier battles crap. It’s an argument that is completely pointless. Sprint might be great in some areas, but absolute crap in others. The ones that do get the service think it’s great, the ones that don’t hate them. It’s such a pointless fight to make. Besides, they all screw us in their own ways anyway right?

We could be like pretty much the rest of the world and have GSM based phones only. That sure would put a lot of this carrier war crap to rest.

jazzyl

Nice im patiently waiting for the Storm 2 as it will run the O.S 5.0 Good news for us Crackberry addicts!!!!!! @ BGR when are we getting the BLACKBERRY BGR APP?

Sent via BlackBerry.

tino72

at least my phone rings and vibs at the same time out of the box..lol oh wait , and i dont need a battery pull every day…30 fps video. superior browser? hmm..not to fun when its thrown back at ya is it..btw im impartial to either RIM or apple, i own both

Fresh2death618

Who the fuck cares. The broswer stills sucks and blackberrys os needs a os overhaul. When will the bullshit change in os 6.0

Oyami

Go to the iPhone already and stop crying like a little bitch.

Maverick

Just because I am curious those of you who are saying the mighty tour browser blows, were you expecting something different? we all saw the BGR report same software slightly modified hardware are all you RIM job lovers that stupid or that blinded?

bk

Wow, never before have I seen so-called ‘tabbed browsing’ that has no tabs whatsoever.

The would better be called, “clunky multi-window browsing”.

I’m a big RIM fan and blackberry addict but they need a totally overhauled browser and, within a few years, a totally overhauled OS.

Watever

iPhone OS/Blackberry OS finally has copy and paste/tabbed browsing. Blackberries/Apple have had this for years. I’d never consider a phone a smartphone till it had copy and paste/tabbed browsing.

Lame! welcome to the past.

codemaker

@Watever

Ahh the irony.

grrr

of coarse i knew the browser sucks maverick.

Maverick

so then the point of wasting money on a new phone that has the same short comings is?

Ted

I am so overwhelmingly disappointed with RIM right nnow its hard to say anything nice about them. Has anyone looked at the tour and tried to download an application from the App store? It’s impossible – completely impossible.

At a time when every OEM and Carrier are fighting tooth and nail to make it easier to get applications onto the phone RIM continues to falter and even take stepos backwards. Clearly THE DO NOT CARE about 3rd party applications – the RIM App store is a disaster even when you can get it to work.

Come on folks – time for a reality check here – these guys need to wake up and get some game – not just be a carrier bitch focused only on handset sales.